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Iron Man Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I personally hold Tony Stark ( The Worlds Biggest Asshole ) responsible for...
I have to agree. Plus, I hold the Marvel writers responsible for crapping out on the best comic book story arc ever (the Civil War) - what a stupid ending; it didn't resolve anything, just made the main 'bad guy' (Stark) a 'good' guy by doing all this to stop something worse (which was the impetus of the whole thing in the first place).
Very annoying. The Civil War arc got me back into comics after being out for ten years, then ends like this? I haven't bought any new comics since, and doubt I will.:(
It was interesting to see how they tried to set up an anti-war message without being critical of the US military.
I didn't find that part interesting, as one has nothing to do with the other.
I'm not sure this is any better done than the first two Blade movies or the first two Batman movies (the most recent Batman movie had a bit of a glaring casting problem with one of the secondary characters - this movie has no such problems), but nevertheless, this movie was a really great comic book movie.
And the trailer for 'The Spirit,' really got my blood pumping before the movie started.:)
Apparently Downey has said that he's up for more sequels (plural), which is good news - this movie has a great ending that just makes you want more right away.
It's not electrical, but solar hot water heating (with a storage tank that feeds into your main water heater) is certainly something that you can use your "hobbyist" skills to save money
1: This is Slashdot - not much need to worry about hot water with geeks.
I wish it were that simple, but you should also realize that it's common knowledge within the industry that the big boys go out of their way to secretly kill off green projects while publicly bragging about their future green plans.
There is a term in the industry, "cogen killers." The companies talk about all these great cogeneration projects they CAN do out of one side of their mouth, while sending out 'hit teams' to companies planning on implementing cogen projects to convince them to not do it. It's not pretty, but until we get rid of W, nothing's going to change in the U.S.
You may think that everything is sweetness and light now that Enron is gone, but what most people don't know about that whole situation is that all that happened with the cooperation of the people running the power plants. I've seen some of the raw transcripts of testimony that never made it to the news, where traders from Enron would call power plant control rooms (how would they even have those phone #'s?!), and tell them that they need prices higher, and to please shut down a generator or two. The engineer on the other end of the line says something along the lines of, "We can't just turn these things off like flipping a light switch," but then agrees to do it. What really struck me was that the engineer in the control room wasn't even surprised that someone from Enron was calling, or what he was calling for. The Enron guy even identified himself! So, while Enron itself is not controlling things, the rest of the system that allowed that is still in place, even while those same power generating companies are settling lawsuits to get back money from the whole Enron deal - like they were innocent victims in this. It's pretty crazy.
FYI - I used to be a reporter covering the energy industry in the Western part of the U.S. I never got permission to write the story of the cogen killers, despite having some leads, and despite working for an independent publication covering the industry. *sigh*
I'm much happier being a web developer again; the only thing that breaks my heart and saps my soul now is having to still support IE6...
I would, but their website requires Javascript. Is this some kind of joke? What year is this?
My friend, it seems YOU are the one confused about the year. The year is something like 10 years PAST the time you should be running with JavaScript off. Welcome to the new world, one full of interesting and (potentially) useful things like AJAX. It's time to put the Gopher client out of its misery, upgrade the 19.2kbps ZyXel modem you got at a discount for running a part-time BBS, and for God's sake, stop listening to Weird Al Yankovic's "All About the Pentiums" and giggling at all the geek jokes.
Yahoo News Microsoft leverages two community projects promoting open protocols for network management-- Web Services for Management and OpenPegasus-- to enable cross-platform support. Microsoft also has joined the steering committee for the OpenPegasus project and will contribute royalty-free code to the project
Microsoft won't just rip the code from OpenPegasus, but will join IBM, HP and others on the OpenPegasus Steering Committee and contribute code back to the project under the OSI-approved Microsoft Public License, which the Free Software Foundation has said is compatible with the GNU GPL version 3. The terms of the Microsoft Public License mean that any code Microsoft contributes will be freely modifiable and usable by anyone, so long as copyrights in the code are left intact.
"It's very important to me that we use OSI-approved licenses when using open source," Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of platform strategy and one of its top open source advocates, said in an interview.
Microsoft's adoption of OpenPegasus for the Operations Manager add-in could be seen as a small data point that shows Microsoft is getting a little bit more comfortable with the open source world by working with IBM and others on an open source project. It's not like Microsoft is open sourcing all of System Center, but it is a step nonetheless.
If you're in the U.S., you should look around you at what is happening to the economy, and what direction it's headed. THEN make up your mind about whether you want to change careers right now.
Oh wait, that's physics nerds. MATH nerds, eh? I don't think they DO fun. Perhaps they could derive an approximation of it, though...just don't let them drink and derive.
Let me show you my house made only with hand tools (in about 10 years).
That's a funny way of dismissing a pretty amazing project. Plus you seem to have missed the point.
There is a common belief that optimizing compilers negate the speed advantages of hand-coded assembly language. The MenuetOS project demonstrates quite clearly that this is not only false, but VERY false. When you further consider that it's a very small team of developers who have created that in a relatively short time, when compared to Linux, this becomes even more impressive. Now think about how comparatively crude assembly language development tools are to the state of C development tools, and you should really be shaking your head in amazement.
Let's also consider that anything you can do in any other language, you can, by definition, do in assembly language. What do I mean by that? Simple: things like object oriented programming and code reuse. With the proper tools, assembly language could become VASTLY easier and quicker to code in than it is now. It will never be a high level language, to be sure, but the barriers to entry and more widespread use could be lowered substantially.
The examples of optimizing compiler output vs hand-coded assembly is usually along the lines of INCREDIBLY simple examples like moving a bit of info or a simple loop. Sure, when you get to that level of simplicity, an optimizing compiler will output very similar, if not identical, code to hand-coded asm. The differences start to show up when you code more complex programs -- you know, like actual software. Plus, that super-optimized compiler code? Not many people do that, anyway. If it compiles cleanly, they're already way ahead of the game in C-land, and that's usually where it ends. Occasionally you'll see a bit of asm code used for a particularly bottlenecked bit of code, but that's about it.
In essence: show a little respect to the asm folks. It may not be your cup of tea, but most of what you've heard about assembly language programming (and C programming in comparison), is really very wrong, even when discussed by otherwise extremely bright, talented and experienced C/C++ programmers. Experienced in C/C++ is *not* experienced in assembly language.
I'm shocked and pleased that D is even on the top2 0 list, much less at #12 already. I guess going 1.0 last year really helped with adoption. Now it just needs a lot of dev tools to really send it into the top ten. If you want to replace C with something C-like, I can't think of anything better than D as far as the language itself goes; we just need those supporting tools.
Really, with C especially, just about every advantage it has over more modern languages are advantages that C itself has over assembly. Assembly is still needed, but no one in their right mind would, say, write an entire OS in assembly.
Yikes, that old myth again, and on Slashdot of all places. Get with it son, it's all ball-bearings now...errr, sorry, slipped into Fletch mode there.
To see the benefit of doing an OS and applications in assembly to PROVE you just spouted a myth, please to check out MenuetOS. C'mon, Slashnerds, let's kill this myth off already!
Apple doesn't HAVE to sell a cheap anything. If they made a standard headless desktop for $800, it would fill their product line nicely, and provide a much higher profit margin than on the Mac Mini.
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...which was implanted in his chest shortly before his escape from the Viet Cong. 1,700 lines of COBOL, and still going strong!
Sadly, it has a Y2K bug. This explains why the John McCain of 2008 is not the same as the one from eight years ago.
the IPv6 address of the Beast.
Wow, MS did something right for once - Somebody call the press!
Let's hope they do the same with IE8; can't downgrade to IE7 or 6. Ever.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I personally hold Tony Stark ( The Worlds Biggest Asshole ) responsible for...
:(
I have to agree. Plus, I hold the Marvel writers responsible for crapping out on the best comic book story arc ever (the Civil War) - what a stupid ending; it didn't resolve anything, just made the main 'bad guy' (Stark) a 'good' guy by doing all this to stop something worse (which was the impetus of the whole thing in the first place).
Very annoying. The Civil War arc got me back into comics after being out for ten years, then ends like this? I haven't bought any new comics since, and doubt I will.
Loved the movie, though.
It was interesting to see how they tried to set up an anti-war message without being critical of the US military.
:)
I didn't find that part interesting, as one has nothing to do with the other.
I'm not sure this is any better done than the first two Blade movies or the first two Batman movies (the most recent Batman movie had a bit of a glaring casting problem with one of the secondary characters - this movie has no such problems), but nevertheless, this movie was a really great comic book movie.
And the trailer for 'The Spirit,' really got my blood pumping before the movie started.
Apparently Downey has said that he's up for more sequels (plural), which is good news - this movie has a great ending that just makes you want more right away.
It's Slacktastic, and chock-full of Volkerdingliciousness! Slackware - part of a well-balanced breakfast.*
* Notes: Not to be used as a flotation device. May stick to certain types of skin. Do not taunt Slackware.
It's not electrical, but solar hot water heating (with a storage tank that feeds into your main water heater) is certainly something that you can use your "hobbyist" skills to save money
1: This is Slashdot - not much need to worry about hot water with geeks.
2: Why would you need to heat hot water, anyway?
I wish it were that simple, but you should also realize that it's common knowledge within the industry that the big boys go out of their way to secretly kill off green projects while publicly bragging about their future green plans.
There is a term in the industry, "cogen killers." The companies talk about all these great cogeneration projects they CAN do out of one side of their mouth, while sending out 'hit teams' to companies planning on implementing cogen projects to convince them to not do it. It's not pretty, but until we get rid of W, nothing's going to change in the U.S.
You may think that everything is sweetness and light now that Enron is gone, but what most people don't know about that whole situation is that all that happened with the cooperation of the people running the power plants. I've seen some of the raw transcripts of testimony that never made it to the news, where traders from Enron would call power plant control rooms (how would they even have those phone #'s?!), and tell them that they need prices higher, and to please shut down a generator or two. The engineer on the other end of the line says something along the lines of, "We can't just turn these things off like flipping a light switch," but then agrees to do it. What really struck me was that the engineer in the control room wasn't even surprised that someone from Enron was calling, or what he was calling for. The Enron guy even identified himself! So, while Enron itself is not controlling things, the rest of the system that allowed that is still in place, even while those same power generating companies are settling lawsuits to get back money from the whole Enron deal - like they were innocent victims in this. It's pretty crazy.
FYI - I used to be a reporter covering the energy industry in the Western part of the U.S. I never got permission to write the story of the cogen killers, despite having some leads, and despite working for an independent publication covering the industry. *sigh*
I'm much happier being a web developer again; the only thing that breaks my heart and saps my soul now is having to still support IE6...
...you listen to Orson Scott Card on the topic of ethics. *yikes*
I would, but their website requires Javascript. Is this some kind of joke? What year is this?
:)
My friend, it seems YOU are the one confused about the year. The year is something like 10 years PAST the time you should be running with JavaScript off. Welcome to the new world, one full of interesting and (potentially) useful things like AJAX. It's time to put the Gopher client out of its misery, upgrade the 19.2kbps ZyXel modem you got at a discount for running a part-time BBS, and for God's sake, stop listening to Weird Al Yankovic's "All About the Pentiums" and giggling at all the geek jokes.
I'm guilty of only one of these.
and then we'll have Leeloo and her multi-pass! Totally cannot wait...
Crap. Take off the trailing 'J' from the Yahoo article for that one to work. *sigh*
Yahoo News
Microsoft leverages two community projects promoting open protocols for network management-- Web Services for Management and OpenPegasus-- to enable cross-platform support. Microsoft also has joined the steering committee for the OpenPegasus project and will contribute royalty-free code to the project
some articles via Google News
Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog
Information Week
Microsoft won't just rip the code from OpenPegasus, but will join IBM, HP and others on the OpenPegasus Steering Committee and contribute code back to the project under the OSI-approved Microsoft Public License, which the Free Software Foundation has said is compatible with the GNU GPL version 3. The terms of the Microsoft Public License mean that any code Microsoft contributes will be freely modifiable and usable by anyone, so long as copyrights in the code are left intact.
"It's very important to me that we use OSI-approved licenses when using open source," Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of platform strategy and one of its top open source advocates, said in an interview.
Microsoft's adoption of OpenPegasus for the Operations Manager add-in could be seen as a small data point that shows Microsoft is getting a little bit more comfortable with the open source world by working with IBM and others on an open source project. It's not like Microsoft is open sourcing all of System Center, but it is a step nonetheless.
If you're in the U.S., you should look around you at what is happening to the economy, and what direction it's headed. THEN make up your mind about whether you want to change careers right now.
...he created one killer file system!
...with Schrödinger's cat.
Oh damn, that's another physics one.
Plus it takes too long to play, and you never can tell if who's won.
Oh wait, that's physics nerds. MATH nerds, eh? I don't think they DO fun. Perhaps they could derive an approximation of it, though...just don't let them drink and derive.
(sorry, someone had to do it...)
Umm thats very interesting
> Fits on a single floppy
But I can't even buy floppies now!
Let me show you my house made only with hand tools (in about 10 years).
That's a funny way of dismissing a pretty amazing project. Plus you seem to have missed the point.
There is a common belief that optimizing compilers negate the speed advantages of hand-coded assembly language. The MenuetOS project demonstrates quite clearly that this is not only false, but VERY false. When you further consider that it's a very small team of developers who have created that in a relatively short time, when compared to Linux, this becomes even more impressive. Now think about how comparatively crude assembly language development tools are to the state of C development tools, and you should really be shaking your head in amazement.
Let's also consider that anything you can do in any other language, you can, by definition, do in assembly language. What do I mean by that? Simple: things like object oriented programming and code reuse. With the proper tools, assembly language could become VASTLY easier and quicker to code in than it is now. It will never be a high level language, to be sure, but the barriers to entry and more widespread use could be lowered substantially.
The examples of optimizing compiler output vs hand-coded assembly is usually along the lines of INCREDIBLY simple examples like moving a bit of info or a simple loop. Sure, when you get to that level of simplicity, an optimizing compiler will output very similar, if not identical, code to hand-coded asm. The differences start to show up when you code more complex programs -- you know, like actual software. Plus, that super-optimized compiler code? Not many people do that, anyway. If it compiles cleanly, they're already way ahead of the game in C-land, and that's usually where it ends. Occasionally you'll see a bit of asm code used for a particularly bottlenecked bit of code, but that's about it.
In essence: show a little respect to the asm folks. It may not be your cup of tea, but most of what you've heard about assembly language programming (and C programming in comparison), is really very wrong, even when discussed by otherwise extremely bright, talented and experienced C/C++ programmers. Experienced in C/C++ is *not* experienced in assembly language.
I'm shocked and pleased that D is even on the top2 0 list, much less at #12 already. I guess going 1.0 last year really helped with adoption. Now it just needs a lot of dev tools to really send it into the top ten. If you want to replace C with something C-like, I can't think of anything better than D as far as the language itself goes; we just need those supporting tools.
...it just smells that way.
Really, with C especially, just about every advantage it has over more modern languages are advantages that C itself has over assembly. Assembly is still needed, but no one in their right mind would, say, write an entire OS in assembly.
Yikes, that old myth again, and on Slashdot of all places. Get with it son, it's all ball-bearings now...errr, sorry, slipped into Fletch mode there.
To see the benefit of doing an OS and applications in assembly to PROVE you just spouted a myth, please to check out MenuetOS . C'mon, Slashnerds, let's kill this myth off already!
Gee, a super-fast drive costs more per gigabyte than a normal drive. Who woulda thunk it?
You should read some reviews of cars just to make sure a Ferrari costs more per mph than, say, a Ford Focus.
His last name isn't 'Biederman,' is it? Cuz that would just be creepy.
Still, looks like it's time to get Bruce Willis & Co. in astronaut training.
Apple doesn't HAVE to sell a cheap anything. If they made a standard headless desktop for $800, it would fill their product line nicely, and provide a much higher profit margin than on the Mac Mini.